Griselda Clement is the wife of Leonard Clement, the vicar of St. Mary Mead. Her husband describes her as young, quite distractingly pretty and treating the parish as a joke arranged for her amusement. She herself admits she is a 'shocking' housekeeper but argues that matters only go worse when she tries. She is deeply in love with her much older husband because he is unable to resist her, though he disapproves of her, and because she never feels she quite knows him.